Take a fun ride
Movie: Adventures in Wild California
Blood-lust on wheels
Movie: The Fast and The Furious
Crass menagerie
Movie: Dr. Dolittle 2
Hollywood be thy name
Movie: The Anniversary Party
Going cheap
Movie: The Golden Bowl
Take a fun ride
Movie: Adventures in Wild California
Blood-lust on wheels
Movie: The Fast and The Furious
Crass menagerie
Movie: Dr. Dolittle 2
Hollywood be thy name
Movie: The Anniversary Party
Going cheap
Movie: The Golden Bowl
Review – Keeper of the Flame
Artist: Luka Bloom
Review – The Radiators
Artist: The Radiators
Review – The May Street Project
Artist: Shea Seger
Review – American Blues Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Review – The Radiators
Artist: The Radiators
Review – American Blues Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Review – Keeper of the Flame
Artist: Luka Bloom
Review – The May Street Project
Artist: Shea Seger
Review – The Radiators
Artist: The Radiators
Review – American Blues Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Power surge
Funny about the side streets off Park Avenue in Winter Park. While the main strip retains its, shall we say, “upscale” image, little spots along Welbourne and Morse house stores filled with small brass Buddhas, dog toys and ice cream. Just off the corner of East Lyman, hovering near the latest and greatest shopping additions,…
Review – Keeper of the Flame
Artist: Luka Bloom
Review – The May Street Project
Artist: Shea Seger
Quick Chinese and then some
Mexican, Caribbean, Cuban, Italian … for a town with such a large Asian population, aside from some very good sushi downtown Orlando has a decidedly un-Asian accent when it concerns food. And when it’s lunch time, a quick little place serving Thai or Chinese food would come in mighty handy, now, wouldn’t it? It’s been…
The period between 1988 a…
The period between 1988 and 1993 was hip-hop’s golden age. During those five short years, the promise and energy of the nascent musical movement came to fruition in a massive way that has never been repeated. Look at a quick roll call of the crews making classic music during this time: EPMD, Public Enemy, the…
Nothing like a fresh bite of Apples
“We don’t necessarily try to fit in,” supposes 11 Red Apples co-vocalist Annie Rodriquez. “Maybe that’s why things don’t happen as fast for us.” Consequently, not fitting in may be one of the main factors that has pushed the locally based, working-man’s funk outfit to the comfortable broad acceptance that’s come to characterize its four-year…
The prophet
I’m not the first to write about Henry Swanson, and I doubt I’ll be the last. His home, in an upscale retirement duplex in Winter Park, is littered with faded, yellowed newspaper clippings, award plaques and personalized letters from governors and state department heads. He even has both an Orange County office and a state…
For richer or for poorer?
In Married to the Mouse (Yale University Press, 288 pages), Rollins College political-science professor Richard Foglesong narrates the history of Disney’s arrival on our doorstep. In Foglesong’s metaphor, it’s a courtship and marriage that started in the mid-1960s, when cheap land and available transportation led Walt and his cohorts to pick Central Florida as the…
Saturday’s child
“We really need it.” This is what everyone was saying about the rain before we were actually getting it and it’s now referred to as, “All this damned rain.” Recently a lot of people got way more rain than they needed, including 22 people who died as a result of tropical storm Allison. One of…
Make it sunnyside up
“Did anyone tell him that there’s no smoking?” curts the browned blowout at the velvet rope two stairs beneath me, cutting short my runway climb to the VIP balcony at Tabu. ; ; “Oh, I’m sorry,” I (con)descend. “But I lit it when there was an ashtray in front of me.” ; ; I can…
Head games
Can a thrill ride be too thrilling? That’s what many industry observers are wondering after the death of 28-year-old Pearl Santos. Earlier this month, the Fontana, Calif., woman was found slumped in her seat after having ridden “Goliath,” a roller coaster that’s been operating at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, Calif., since February 2000.…
A moviegoer’s guide to the galaxy
“More stars than there are in the heavens” used to be the slogan of MGM Studios, and for an awfully long time, Louis B. Mayer’s stable of screen idols came close to justifying that P.R. party line. The second and final weekend of the Florida Film Festival (which ended its 10-day run last Sunday) likewise…
The high note to recovery
A February report in the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle described a local patient’s remarkable recovery from botulism paralysis at Park Ridge Hospital. The woman recently recalled that, after the toxin struck her in June 2000, she lay in her hospital bed, able to hear everything around her but unable to communicate in any way…
